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Happiness is a 1998 American black comedy film written and directed by Todd Solondz, that portrays the lives of three sisters, their families, and those around them.
Oct 16, 1998 · With Jane Adams, Jon Lovitz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dylan Baker. The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Todd Solondz
- 1998-10-16
Jul 26, 2022 · Happiness (1998) Copyright © 1998 by Bella Cosa, Inc and Livingstone Pictures, Inc.Genre: Comedy, Drama, Black ComedyStoryline: The lives of several individuals intertwine as...
Helen (Lara Flynn Boyle) is an esteemed poet who becomes amused by her perverted neighbor, Allen (Philip Seymour Hoffman). And eldest sister Trish (Cynthia Stevenson) is...
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- Jane Adams
- Todd Solondz
- Comedy, Drama
Oct 23, 1998 · "Happiness" is a movie about closed doors--apartment doors, bedroom doors and the doors of the unconscious. It moves back and forth between several stories, which often link up. It shows us people who want to be loved and who never will be--because of their emotional incompetence and arrested development.
Happiness. As disturbingly funny as it is audaciously empathetic, auteur of unease Todd Solondz’s portrait of damaged souls reaching out for connection reveals the existential void underneath middle-class suburban “normalcy.”
A man is unable to tell her next-door neighbor that he finds her sexually attractive. An old couple wants to split up, but they don't want to get a divorce. A therapist masturbates to teen magazines. An 11-year-old kid is insecure about the fact that he hasn't masturbated yet.
